tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33243561606213547532011-04-22T13:40:45.402+08:00MORE WEIRD JUST NORMALsprocket2coghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872133168553789554noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324356160621354753.post-43167532504075979082009-02-28T23:24:00.002+08:002009-02-28T23:26:48.051+08:00

WEll this blog has been underfed the last few years, now its as skinny as i aam :P, time to give it a better diet and start getting back into the swing of things.. but there enough here to keep you going for a while , so sit back and lets see what i can come up with this time around.

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Many moons ago when 56k dialup was all the rage a new game came out from the guys at activision called netstorm. At the time I remember going to pay my ISP account and the owner slipping me a CD of a game she was playing behind the counter. It was netstorm an online game with shades of tetris (slightly) red alert and warcraft. All rolled into a package that features floating islands, magic spells

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rc drone recon droid, robot Originally uploaded by sprocket2cog. this is our medivac chopper hacked into a remote drone, the shell is foam with carbon rod inserts for the boom and landing skids, but was too heavy,only getting to a height of 18 inches/.

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Well we decided to get hold of a remote control helicopter for the lab and after much debate ended up with the electric night ranger by Venom Air Corp . Theses little beast's have a single highspeed engine and two micro servos as well as gyro assisted flight and to boot no explosive LIPO batteries to go boom. This little guy runs on a custom nimh cells running at 8.4 volts or 7 1.2 aaa cells i

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Terminator robot Originally uploaded by sprocket2cog. This guy just popped yp in our local hobby store, a full size cast metal robot from the terminator line of robot, well terminators.dosent do anything, but nice either way.

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lego webcam hacked Originally uploaded by sprocket2cog. This is the lego web camera from the old Vision command system hacked to an adaptor ring made from some pvc fittings, The lens is a 35mm SLR lens from RICOH and features a macro mode as well as a zoom function. This is an ideal starter lens as the macro lets you use it for close up of circuits to read part id numbers so you can

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viper from microbric power hack Originally uploaded by sprocket2cog. For all you viper owners out there looking for a way to add external power to your project so you dont need all those aaa cells , Heres the power mod for the board, just add your own 7-9 volt power supply to the robot, The red wire "no not the red wire !" solders to the switch block terminal as per the photo and the

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For those observant people out there, you may have noticed that the photos of the laminated sections seem out os scale to the plans . Well they are, during the mock up I noticed that the body and chassis were out of scale so after a rethink based on other ideas in our little book of hacks and mods. I decided to cut the chassis down from 300 to 250mm for this first run, the body rings are the same

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Well since the end of our friend AIBO we have all wondered if sony was going to bring us something new. Well its not the real deal, but lets hope sony releases some of these guys for us to hack, I mean use..

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Went looking for movies and found this little three part film for your pleasure, check out he other parts at youtube ( just click videos by this user

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So you want to get rid of that Furby or V2 robot and want a fun way o do it ? well how about this. I would love to see a robot flick this switch...

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Well a few weeks ago i happened to be on a plane heading for Melbourne when I noticed this little bit of infomation that might make you think twice about tha kid and his furby sitting next to you.The Plane safety pamphlet in the plane had a little photo of furby with a cross though him, so I figured a little bit more investigation was in order, I dont normally read the plane safety stuff, I

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Gostai has released it URBI for NXT beta for puplic use and has started a forum and support center at the site. The screenshots look good and I'm downloading it (3.6mb)in prep for my NXT set. I know I wasnt going to get more lego, but hey Its worth it just for the built in bluetooth controller. While i havent tried out the package yet, any free robot software is good robot software, so check it

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Ok so you need some watch batteries in a hurry and cant find any on the shelf? well if its the smaller thin ones your looking for then grap one of the small 12 volt batteries that go in some cameras, and my multimeter :P, so anyway now the part that comes with a disclaimer, (dont do this unless your sure, cells are dangerous if they rupture) get a file and file the end cap from the positve

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The old raptor hacksite is up online at my good friends site at http://www.evosapien.com/And includes those sort after goodies including the silent start up and bigger bite.While your there , make sure to check out the other hackers pages, including the great v2 hacker canadian knitsu.So head over to our raptor site at evosapien and get those old dusty raptors out of the cupboard.now you have the

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Found this video over at youtube, its not bad for both animation and robot design. THese guys look cool, the future of the robo one and bipeds in general ? we hope so.

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Ive got a few Shirts up with the xbr robot on them at the gallery at zazzle, check out the xbr gallery at zazzle

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I saw this used on some sites around the net and the idea to apply it to the nasa rover images hit me, so here it is , my first mars rover animated stereogram.

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please wait large animation file - loading frameswatch the center for a while, defocus, destress, relax and wait for the world... yeah right, its just an optical illusion, it isn't aportal to another dimension

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22granite1 Originally uploaded by sprocket2cog. Here's a sample for a menu background thzts a bit like concrete

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Ive decided to finally commit to building a full scale robot, but rather then just do it and see how it turns out, ive decided to do a fair amount of design and prototyping in CAD before i start building.Primarily the design is just the chassis and body , but the idea is to create a robot that can be used for a range of uses by changing a few parts around.The robot is not a design for the lab or

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Heres a quick little battle between two ai2 robots from microbric, these little beast's come programmed with several modes including this one.Ill try to get the viper sumo and the ai2 bots fighting each other soon as well.But in the mean time grab your giant foam finger and cheer for your favorite team.. RED or....RED.., and yes, in the second video there is a winner. ;)Catch you when the sparks

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WEll news in Australia for the workers at the Holden plant is grim, with over 600 workers given the heave ho in favor of...you guessed it ROBOTS.. I did a google search on the holden plant and was able to locate a company called sage automation that way back in 2003 was awarded a contract by major german firm,Eisenmann. THis multi million dollar contract was part of a 5 year plan to upgrade the

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Well the much awaited release of the new advanced firmware and gui has arrived with the guys over at microbric just releasing the links to get your version today.You will need to follow the directions to update your ai2, but once you have it will give you a robot brain with all the bells and whistles stripped out leaving you with nearly double the avaliable memory for your own "take over the

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Of all places to find this hack, I found it at a UFO watching site.Basiclly if you take the lens off your camera and expose the ccd you can take a standard 35mm film lens and using some pvc pipe and some glue and screws you can construct a decent camera for watching the back yard.You will need to work out the focal length to get it focused and the easiest way to do this is with a torch and a tape

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I have decided to go through some of the earlier hacks and mods for those that missed it.Ive had a lot of interest in some of the older robosapien and roboraptor hacks, so ill start with a quick over veiw of the v2 cover removel.First things first, lay the robot down with the arms by its side in the neutral postion.locate all the screws in the hips and body section, making sure not to overlook

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Well Ive been net surfing looking for the dirt on the future of the robocup in Australia , with educational experience no longer selling Lego products.And the latest news shows a major shuffle in theundertaking.Firstly NSW company Modern Teaching Aids has taken on the role of suppling LEGO to Australian schools and as of today still seem to have a distinct lack of Lego content on thier site,

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Well I.ve managed to secure a Ai2 from the microbric range of robots and am impressed with what ive found so far.To but this little critter into perspective ill relate it to the i-bot that first came out before the viper hit the shelves.The i-bot, while cute and fun to play with lacked a few things to realy bring it up to speed for the school or hobby enviroment. First thing it lacked was a cable

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Ok so the photo isnt a T-rex but it is three raptors eating some poor dinosaur. Anyway back to the T-Rex, this video at youtube was filmed at the perth shows so you still get to see what i saw, even with my camera breakdown.So sit back and excuse the audio distortion, it really is loud during the show.Heres another from one of the earlier shows in the eastern states.

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VOODO RIG Originally uploaded by sprocket2cog. Ths is the control rig nicknamed the (voodoo rig) for the main control of all the neck body movement and tail movement for the dinosaurs. This one was for the larger Brachiosaurus and requires two hands to use. The black handle you see is for the tail movement and the signals from the control are processed and use a system based on can bus and

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So after ten days in downtown Drouin taking in the sunshine I was just starting to think I had gone the whole holiday without one robot hack to be seen..When low and behold on a quick trip to Marks mates brothers place (we will call him Brad for agument sake).So anyway the story so far is one unhacked rasptor with the novelty worn off. (editor note-Raptors look really ugly with the novelty worn

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Ok this may not be what you expect from me. but hey its two of the best things a man could want....A really pretty woman and a humanoid biped robot...so when I stumbled upon this image over at www.willmurai.com.I couldnt help but link you over to his gallery to see more of his art.Great illustrator worth a look.http://www.willmurai.com/

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After some flying around the "gearth" and downloading some of the overlays from google hacks and the community forums , I noticed a distincted lack of any extra finishing touches to the overlays bieng used. So heres my first attempt at a console style web cam viewer projected on the perth river.Details include the main image, weather details and some other little bits you need to download to

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Well ive been introduced to the world of google earth and as always in a attempt to give something back ive uploaded a layer set for current cloud and lightning strike data for australia as can be seen in the image.The weather updates daily and the lightning strikes are weekly totals for the region.Google earth hacks will be hosting it soon once it pass's approval.

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Realtime Page Avatar systemSo you wish you could see whos on that site your visting realtime ? not just as a log on a site survey? Well download this little plugin and program that adds realtime user avatars that are visting your site, now this dosnt show everyone on the net as a person, it only shoes other zweitgeist users on that page.Chat ballons and avatar actions like waving and dancing

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Microbric the South Australian based company has released notices on it's web site stating that their products will be sold though Australian supplier to the educational sector, Educational Experience. This led me over to Edex to see what products may be on offer. But low and behold There wasnt any microbrics to be found...But what was even stranger was that the Lego range of RCX and other such

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Dust ferrert Originally uploaded by sprocket2cog. Dont let your laptop's heatpipe cooling get like this or 10 minutes of hard gaming or graphics rendering just overheats the cpu.The laptop gets a service while on holiday.

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miniRobot.jpg Originally uploaded by andybone. And you thought i hacked up robots, some guy has taken half this robets skin off. poor bot. forced to stand half naked in front of us carbon life forms...

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just above the clouds Originally uploaded by sprocket2cog. I flew into melbourne yesterday so here is a photo from the flight.

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RIMG3893 Originally uploaded by sprocket2cog. One of my mums puppies, bouncer take's riding lessons. Yes she is only a puppie, about 8-9 mths here.Old english sheepdogs arent small animals.there is more of the family at flicka, including her brother and dad, tiga and duke.

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Ive just knocked up a relay prototype for the RC car ive got and its working fine, now just to wire the connectors to the car for it and it should allow some basic control over the speed of the robot once its finished. THe relay is buffered from the viper with a 1kohm resister feeding a pn2222 transistor which in turn feeds power (5v) to the relay coil. three pins on the front edge of the board

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The guys over at slashdot posted a link to this video, It's not the best editing in my humble opinion but you get the idea, WE had better not let the rest of our bots see this one or they may start harbouring some contempt for us petty human's.Thanks to robot2407 for posting this ad from GM.played during the superbowl this year so it cost them way to much money to show...anyway enjoy.

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WEll Ive been busy today building a 9v voltage regulator for the 12 volt car and adding it and the viper to the car.Ive also added the harness to the controller ready to build an interface board.This will use standard pn2222 transistors to interface the viper to the control lines on the transmitter.Ill have to add a relay board to interrupt the motor power to create PWM control as at the moment

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If you live in Australia and can get into the Dick smith stores you can grab a viper pack and one each of the add on packs (yep all three) for the price of just the viper kit.Thats nearly $380 worth of product for just $199 !Thats right get in on the action now and start building your viper sumo or 4wd robot today. (well tommorow as the stores are shut here today.) Head over to DSE to check it

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Heres the inside of the 1:6 scale RC car im hacking, As you can see the wiring is a bit of a mess so first on the agenda is a rewire of all the remote systems with a new harness and breakout board that can be unpluged in a few seconds to facilitate new system installs, The control board will be rehoused in a weather proof box and ports for the controller and lights etc added. Basicly the whole

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Well we all know that red goes faster, and it looks like the boys in the lab at MICROBRIC have caught on to the idea. They have released the new addition to the family with the Ai2 kit form robot being sold as parts with South Australian Newspapers.We may see it filter down to the online shop or even e-bay in the future so keep your eyes peeled if your looking for one.So what can we expect from

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Today I decided to go and buy a cheap remote control car to hack and as it happened i found a realy good deal I couldnt pass up.This 1:6 scale ferrari styled car cost me $39.00 aud deduced from $109 over the past few months.(read right place, right time) so now I have a large scale RC car to hack.I've already peeked inside and am a little bit dissapointed it dosent use a standard servo setup so

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Tyranosauri Originally uploaded by Andrew Scott. While browsing around Flikr today I came across this photo stream. not a great deal of iages but a few of the WWD show in brisbane.Thanks Andrew for uploading these images for us to see.

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As of today all the vip seating up until the last show on the 22nd of feb are sold out.Theres normal seating left before then if you want to sit further back.I managed to secure a vip seat on the last night so the show should be a good one.I will be hanging around as long as possible after the show to see if I can get into the Dino's holding pens for a quick look. But if not not just being there

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Zazzle has started making more products with hundreds of choices of products.Mugs mouse pads and ties are just are few items being offered.Support us by buying your favorite designs from our gallery.

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I located this preview of what we can expect to see at the WWD stage spectacluar.And first impressions are that its going to be the biggest thing since well, since we first saw CGI films that no longer looked fake. this fusion of robotics and puppetry, mixed with large helpings of movie and stage show style. And your sure its going to be a rollar coaster of a ride. For those technophiles out

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Heres a little video of a robot leg test, add some funny music and you have a great youtube video.

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za"If you only learn one thing about robotics, this is it!"Ok, big call I know, so i'll tell you why. Beeen to the shops lately? Seen all thos cool toys and gadgets sitting on the shelves in Electronic stores or retail chains ? Well they are all robot parts waiting to be hacked in to that all terrain programable tele-operated robot with enough features to win a science fair or take on the

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News channels everywhere have picked up on the news of online video hosting services plans to start returning profits to their contributers.This may be due to the fact that its a video based service and it relates to television very well.Or some quirk of the internet which if you have been around for a while, have sure to have seen it before.Maybe the transferal of google video to a GUI with

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If a life size T-rex was standing in front of you clawing the ground and growling just before if bared its teeth and edged towards you wouldnt you want to run away ?Well im hoping that when I get to see them I can get up really close and see inside...Yep The walking with dinosaur's stage show started several days ago in Sydney and these giant aussie built robots are so real it 's

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overveiw; The raptor is based around a bipedal weight transfer mechanisim.The legs both have thier own motors. The motors, located on the inside of each hip, are mounted inside the forward/rear torso movement assembly,this assembly is spring mounted and is responsable for the raptors rocking motion. The motor that controls this system is located between the leg motors but slighty lower. The neck

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Single arc vertebre design #2.2 alpha

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One of the earlier hacks to the v2 mini, new paint and weight reduction !!Real robots eat code....now that was basic wasnt it..

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USING YOUR XBOX TO FAULT FIND YOUR HOUSE WIRING ???Well today my son came running out of the lounge with a look of absolute shock across his face" you know that ring of light on the xbox dad? well now its nearly all red and the 360 dosent work..."Well now I had the same look.Anyway to cut a long story short after 10 minutes of reseting unplugging and just plain quessing about the xboxs hurry to

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My latest toy is a N73 phone from nokia, While a search around the net will reveal its strengths and weakness's , its not why I got this one. In fact this time around I decided to just go to my local phone shop and see what was actually on the shelf instead of waiting around like I had to to get the 9500. So i decided on two styles or functions as my main indicators and went from there.First ones

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Quick idea for bibep leg DOF

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While surfing the net for new robot ideas, I came upon this little beast willing ready and able to kick the gears in on a few of our other robot mates..I know its just a brain, but think of it as the start of a great thing. And what better place to start looking then at some of its features, INNOVATION FIRST-frc robot controller16 Digital user set I/O ports16 Analogue I/O ports12 standard pwm

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Well for those that know me you might have noticed that i've been offline for some months and alot has happened in the robot world (cant anybody save us?).Ive had some hassles getting the old blog active (lost passwords etc) so in the spirt of change I decided to update the blog and give it a new feel.The old blog is still up but i will start moving some content over if it fits in to the new

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